Sentence examples similar to tale of fire from inspiring English sources

Watch for more tales of fire sales by indebted billionaires forced to dump assets in a hurry to pay off big debts.

Angered by the gunfire and years of neglect, nearly 300 tenants of the buildings swelled a recent public meeting and told horrific tales of fires, floods, bullets whizzing through the air, dog feces in the stairwells, rats roaming the plaza with the drug dealers and recruiting gang members, leaking interiors and nonexistent security.

One member of his Navy Seals squad has said that contrary to Mr. Kerrey's tale of returning fire, civilians were rounded up and shot dead.

Her tale of sniper fire generated considerable ridicule, with Christopher Hitchens (a longstanding critic of Clinton and her husband) concluding that she either "lies without conscience or reflection" or "is subject to fantasies of an illusory past" or both.

"Tales of the fire of Moscow, of the battle of Borodino... of the taking of Paris were my cradle songs, my nursery stories, my Iliad and my Odyssey," Herzen wrote.

Many of those who dialed the phone on Sept. 11, desperate for help from the trade center, told tales of heat, fire, smoke and devastation that still penetrate the dispatchers' thoughts.

The ubiquitous tale of the Chicago fire – which raged for three whole days in 1871, leveling 3 sq miles of bustling city – is kind of like the mild, Midwestern version of the story of the phoenix, the great fire bird that burned fiercely in order to be reborn.

Just as Bill used "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is" in front of the grand jury to mask his lies about Monica Lewinsky, Hillary is now using "sleep deprivation" and "misspoke" and "it proves I'm human" to soft sell her hyperbolic tale of ducking sniper fire in Bosnia.